Time to bring out the old light panel, even though the days are getting perceptibly longer. Still now enough light in my eyes to lift my spirits the way spring does. I bought this natural light panel that you look into for a half hour each day and it does something indescribable to your feelings. So of course I had to try to describe it in this prose poem, now appearing in the current issue…
I spend so much time looking at my phone anyway, between reading email, texting, facebooking, googling, and playing games, that I decided I might as well try out reading books as well. To my surprise, a Kindle book is downloadable to an iPhone as well as an iPad, and the text is very readable. I already read poetry on my phone from such sites as Poetry Foundation and poets.org. It seemed to me that for…
Discovered a fascinating and informative page by Aaron Shephard on self-publishing and the changing landscape of eBooks. Speaking of publishers, the ever-innovative micro press Cooper Dillon Books now has a link to my interview with publisher Adam Deutsch published at Fringe. Stay tuned for more. I plan to get Deutsch talking again about poetry publishing and the literary community. Found some new (to me) zines I want to read and submit work to: for flash…
I’m honored to be included in Umbrella Journal’s fifth anniversary issue. the Orsorum section features my work, as well as that of: C.B. AndersonSeth BraverMichael CantorRobin ChapmanMaryann CorbettTammy Ho Lai-MingPaul HostovskyRose KelleherKathleen KirkJohn Milbury-SteenKen PoynerJason PrimmJennifer ReeserSarah J. SloatDavid StephensonSherry Chandler (Book Review) Huge congratulations to publisher/editor Kate Bernadette Benedict for steering this publication to a wider audience, through innovative and fresh ideas, and also creating an umbrella for Tilt-A-Whirl and Carmine Street Metrics. Umbrella…
Among the many Occupy events I’ve been following are literary ones. It’s a good moment in history for poets and writers to speak up through their art. I was happy to see that Fringe Magazine started an Occupy area on their blog. An Occupy poetry anthology is online and still accepting more works, I’ve heard. And I’m sure much more literature will come out of this new movement some are calling “the end of the…
I was flattered to be asked by novelist and publisher Linda Leith to contribute one of my photos to her wonderful, rich online literary salon. Those are my leaves across the top, behind the banner! I feel like I’ve started a new venture, photography. All with my new iPhone 4s (yes, Apple please deposit the ad revenue directly into my Paypal account). I do love taking photos with my new phone. And I do love…
A new television series on an innovator and legend — no, not Steve Jobs, though that’s not a bad idea — Leonardo da Vinci, the Huffington Post reports. Flash mob! Italian style. Why do I never get called? If you’re in the San Francisco area and love Renaissance and Baroque painters, you might want to see Masters of Venice, on exhibit through February. Why did they have to put the De Young so far away?…
In my rambles around the blogosphere, I’ve had my mind on novels and memoirs, because I’m working on a novel. Here are some interesting stops along your way, if you’re similarly inclined: a Wild Irish poet’s book on Ireland, the Plot Whisperer, and a revision checklist. Plus a few more. Wild Irish PoetThe Plot Whisperer Revision ChecklistPacing Here’s a taste of my novel: Chapter Three. Rome, Day One. In a room one floor below the…
I’m very pleased to have five of my ocean-related poems in the Fall issue of Sea Stories. Editor K.r. Copeland selects poetry for the Littoral Currents section of this beautiful. My poems appear in this issue along with those of J.P. Dancing Bear, fellow San Pedran (by birth) Larry Kuechlin, Lyn Lifshin, Janice Wilson Stridick, Virgil Suarez, Skylaar Amman, Lynn Fanock, Nancy Scott, L.B. Sedlacek, Arthur Seeley, Tim Tomlinson, Andrea Witzke Slot, Norbert Krapf, W.F.…
In my interview for Fringe Magazine with Adam Deutsch, Publisher/Editor of Cooper Dillon Books, most interesting to me was his idea that poetry is on the outskirts of our culture because of an absence of community. We fail to see ourselves — the poetry world — as community, and often fail to act as a community, supporting each other in ways that would strengthen the art itself. Community isn’t a new concept, but it’s newly…